Hey all,

As discussed here, I am looking for 3 new moderators to help with this community.

Please review this post and vote for the candidate you would like to see help on this community.

In no particular order, the candidates are:

I invite you to review users post history when deciding on voting.

This thread will be open for 72 hours (until Friday June 23rd, 8PM ET) at which point voting will stop. Any votes after this time will not be counted. I will try to lock this thread after that time so people do not accidentally continue voting.

Everyone gets 1 vote, including the users being considered. The top 3 will be given mod powers of this community to help with organization of discussions and votes.

Please vote by calling the persons name. For example, if I you wanted to vote for TheDude you would reply with: TheDude

  • @imaqtpieMAEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    imaqtpie

    My first order of business would be developing a more organized way of voting here. No offense to TheDude, he’s got a lot on his plate.

    • @annegreenEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Agreed. I think we need to separate the discussion from the vote. It’s confusing to have amendments take place on voting posts as discussion develops. We also need clear parameters on how to draft a vote and then how the vote gets resolved.

      • @goatEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I think a parliamentary system could work well, though that’s complicated.

        Maybe some strawpoll site that requires authentication? Link your account, have it approved, then vote.

        • @annegreenEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          That’s perhaps one of the better ways of doing it.

          I’m seeing the desire for both verification of users (with accounts on this instance) and for the protection of anonymity. It’s possible to provide both those things at the same time, but I don’t see how we can do so on the native server.

          • Contextual IdiotEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            Perhaps we can have a separate community just for voting, maybe call it Polling Station?

            And if it’s possible, have a bot invite users of this instance to the community. Have the bot set to only invite users that are 1 week old and with X number of comments to combat the spam and bot accounts. The account age limit can be whatever we want, since most of us aren’t quite a week old ourselves.

            Once the mod vote is over we should probably create a Discussion post for this.

            • Captain AggravatedEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              At the very least, make it standard to start one thread “Vote upcoming: discussion below” and then later on open the polls.